How to Use intergovernmental in a Sentence
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The new intergovernmental body in Prague has little in the way of formal structure.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
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The rest comes from intergovernmental revenues, charges for services and other sources.
—Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2025
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To do so, the hybrid school board would need to pass an intergovernmental agreement per state law and amend its current budget before that date.
—Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
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For over a decade, an intergovernmental group at the UN has grappled with how the council might take in more countries.
—The Economist, 20 June 2020
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Oswego, Yorkville and Montgomery will share the costs of the project through an intergovernmental agreement.
—Linda Girardi, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2021
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The city and Naperville Township will enter into an intergovernmental agreement to fund the rest of the project.
—Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 13 Mar. 2018
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The intergovernmental agreement for the sale could be approved at the next full City Council meeting.
—Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 23 Feb. 2018
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The chief intergovernmental affairs and chief health officer roles are vacant.
—Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
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Last time, Lucio chaired an intergovernmental affairs panel that the Senate did away with this year.
—Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2021
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The intergovernmental effort that has been in the works since 2002 is expected to come to fruition this summer.
—Susan Demar Lafferty, Daily Southtown, 16 May 2018
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The district would convey both the Todd and Lincoln school buildings to the city as part of the intergovernmental agreement.
—Linda Girardi, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020
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The council, in June, authorized the sale of the stadium to the school system, and backed an intergovernmental agreement to do so.
—John Sharp | [email protected], al, 6 July 2023
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One of those items, which is an intergovernmental agreement with Pace Bus, will go into effect May 1.
—James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 10 Feb. 2022
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His new intergovernmental affairs director and a deputy chief of staff plan to be at the Gold Dome often throughout the session.
—Wilborn Nobles, ajc, 18 Jan. 2022
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This is the first time that Beijing has presided over a major intergovernmental meeting on the environment.
—Vanessa Hull, The Conversation, 29 Nov. 2022
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And in our intergovernmental climate report, the Africa chapter has for the first time included heritage in its assessment.
—Joanne Clarke, Quartz Africa, 20 Aug. 2020
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It wasn’t put into our Legistar (software) by our intergovernmental relations team.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2025
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The proportion of a state’s budget sourced from federal dollars in the form of intergovernmental aid, as of 2022.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2025
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At 144 years old, the UPU is one of the oldest intergovernmental agencies.
—Jen Kirby, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018
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This new effort is said to be an intergovernmental task force that will include several departments, including law enforcement.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2025
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According to an intergovernmental agreement, the city and Kane County share maintenance of the fence.
—Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 1 June 2017
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Aurora, Naperville and Naperville Township already have agreed to an intergovernmental agreement to do the project.
—Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 30 Oct. 2017
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That requires working with tech companies to a much closer extent than perhaps intergovernmental structures like the UN are used to.
—Ana Deoliva, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
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The relationship between the village and the library is managed by an intergovernmental agreement.
—Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2026
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The agreement has worked for the last 20 years and was lauded by the state three years ago as a model of intergovernmental cooperation, Meyers said.
—Michelle Mullins, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2020
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The pilot is the result of an intergovernmental agreement between the CTA and the city of Chicago.
—Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
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The pilot is the result of an intergovernmental agreement between the CTA and the city of Chicago.
—Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
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Strong intergovernmental cooperation begins with treating cities and towns as true partners.
—Charlotte Observer, 14 Feb. 2026
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Nash said intergovernmental partnerships that formed during the pandemic need to stay in place to really address health disparity in the Delta and across the state.
—Stephen Simpson, Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2021
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The board also plans to request an intergovernmental agreement that would include a land transfer with a deed conveying property ownership of the village lot to the school district.
—Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
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